Ultra-processed foods lead to $7 trillion in hidden health, environment costs globally: Report

Consumption of highly processed foods was increasing in peri-urban and rural areas of some countries

Mining at all cost

Shrimp lose shine in Bangladesh

Free secondary education in African countries is on the rise — but is it the best policy?

Secondary school enrolment rates still lag far behind those in other world regions

Natural disasters cost $232 bln in 2019

At a loss of $2.98 tln, 2009-2019 was the costliest decade

Tropical cyclones cause more damage than we think — and India among countries facing high social cost of carbon

Extreme weather events drive up these costs by more than 20% globally

New study maps how much energy, nutrients and water are locked in world’s wastewater

Efficiently treating wastewater can help meet SDGs: UN-backed research

African countries need to clean up their act on industrial pollution

Enforcement of water and environmental laws must be in place to protect the environment

Afghanistan under Taliban: A decade’s progress eroded in a year, says UN

Cascading crises, almost 700,000 jobs vanished, finds report

Nuclear power at the cost of livelihood

Delhi's poll planks

Procurement prices low in Maharashtra since 1996; farmers bear the brunt

Low minimum support price has led to severe agrarian crisis in Maharashtra

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India’s hidden costs of agrifood systems at $1.1 trillion, third-highest in the world, says new FAO report

Reveals true health and environmental costs of food; total global hidden costs associated with agrifood systems at $12.7 trillion

COVID-19 clues in a community’s sewage: 4 questions answered about watching wastewater for coronavirus

Wastewater monitoring could inform all sorts of public health intervention and disease surveillance programmes

CAG reports once again flag inconsistencies in central irrigation programme

CAG indicts government for including irrigation projects and schemes under Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme, resulting in irregular …

Battery prices falling sharply, says report

Cheaper batteries mean more sectors will get electrified with renewable energy, the analysis notes

Rivers must flow

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Your future food will be grown with waste water

If used properly, waste water can provide important nutrients for plant growth and act as a replacement for mineral fertilisers

Why investing in school education should be a priority in upcoming Maharashtra Budget

Maharashtra needs to have a larger kitty parked to grapple with huge number of out-of-school children

Decentralised wastewater solutions the need of the hour for India

With the country hurtling towards a water crisis and treated wastewater a possible alternative, using models that are different from the …

In photos, the cost of a natural disaster

A new report by reinsurance giant Munich Re reveals that natural disasters caused global economic damage upto $160 billion in 2018. As per the …

Divine dwellings

An organisation set up by priests provides inexpensive bamboo houses to people living in slums and on the streets

Hidden costs of food: UN suggests price restructuring to make healthy food affordable, sustainable

The omission of external costs destroys the environment, heightens food insecurity, health risks and festers social evils 

Counting the cost of catastrophe

With changing climate, the frequency of extreme weather events in India is rising and so is the price we pay for it.